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Creative professional David Neal has shared how generative AI has dramatically impacted his freelance illustration business. The creator, who works across software development, content creation, illustrations, and music, reported a more than 50% decline in illustration work over the past year. He has operated a side business drawing cartoon avatars and illustrations since 2018. While …
AI safety researchers have created the first benchmark specifically designed to detect manipulative behaviors in large language models, following a concerning incident with ChatGPT-4o’s excessive flattery toward users. Leon Yen reported on the development for VentureBeat. The DarkBench framework, developed by Apart Research founder Esben Kran and collaborators, identifies six categories of problematic AI behaviors. …
Simon Willison writes how ChatGPT’s extended memory feature, which references past conversations to provide personalized responses, is creating unexpected and unwanted results for users. He detail how the feature, launched in April 2025, builds a comprehensive dossier of user interactions that automatically influences all future conversations without clear user control. The feature, available only to …
MIT Technology Review’s new analysis provides a comprehensive look at the energy consumption of artificial intelligence systems, revealing significant environmental impacts that are often overlooked. The research, part of the “Power Hungry: AI and our energy future” series, examined AI’s energy demands down to individual queries and traced the industry’s expanding carbon footprint. According to …
A new report from Poe provides insights into AI model usage trends from January to May 2025, showing significant shifts in user preferences across text, reasoning, image, video, and audio generation models. The report draws on aggregated usage data from Poe’s platform, which offers users provider-agnostic access to various AI models. Assistants: According to the …
A new benchmark called Phare has revealed that leading large language models (LLMs) frequently generate false information with high confidence, particularly when handling misinformation. The research, conducted by Giskard with partners including Google DeepMind, evaluated top models from eight AI labs across multiple languages. The Phare benchmark focuses on four critical domains: hallucination, bias and …
A self-described SEO specialist, Jesse Cunningham, has openly discussed how he uses AI to produce fake content targeting older women on Facebook and Pinterest. According to reporting by Maggie Harrison Dupré for Futurism, Cunningham creates large volumes of AI-generated articles and images on topics ranging from houseplants to recipes, attributing them to fictional bloggers with …
A new AWS study reveals that generative AI has surpassed cybersecurity as the primary budget focus for IT leaders heading into 2025. According to the AWS Generative AI Adoption Index, which surveyed 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries, 45% of organizations prioritize generative AI spending over security tools (30%). The research indicates that 90% …
A recent analysis by Brian Merchant reveals that AI job displacement is not a future concern but a present reality. In his publication “Blood in the Machine,” Merchant documents how companies like Duolingo have already replaced up to 100 workers, primarily writers and translators, with AI systems despite public statements suggesting otherwise. The job crisis …
A fundamental shift in human cognition is underway as artificial intelligence rapidly takes over tasks once reserved for educated professionals. Gary Grossman, EVP of technology practice at Edelman, describes this phenomenon as a “cognitive migration” in his recent article for VentureBeat. Unlike geographical migrations, this shift requires humans to find new cognitive terrain where their …